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Topic: Rice Husk Pellets Specification (Read 60 times)

As a cereal grain, rice is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East and South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the West Indies. It is the grain with the second-highest worldwide production, after corn.

With the large scale of rice planting, the utilization of rice husk has also become an economic sources of the planter.

Rice husk is the outmost layer of protection encasing a rice grain. With yellowish color and convex shape, it is slightly larger than the grain of rice. The rice husk is light in weight, bulk density of dry rice husk is around 340kg/m3 to 400kg/m3. Each ton of rice can produce about 180kg rice husk.

As a source of alternative energy over the usual non-renewable fossil fuels, rice husk pellets have been gaining a lot of interests all over the world. There are many benefits to using rice husk pellet.